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IT Chapters One and Two (Hardcover)
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IT Chapters One and Two (Hardcover)
Series: Devil's Advocates
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Drawing on critical analysis of film, the horror genre, the Gothic,
and Stephen King scholarship, this book considers Andy Muschietti's
IT Chapter One (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019) on multiple levels:
as film (both as individual films and through their interconnected
narrative), as adaptation, and as a barometer of the horror film's
popularity among fans. Key points of consideration include the
significance of the fictional town of Derry as a traditionally
Gothic "bad place," the role of 1980s nostalgia in these two films,
the complex navigation of memory and trauma, gender representation,
queer representation, and the return of the repressed. The
terrifying figure of Pennywise the clown is central to this
analysis, including consideration of performance, costuming, and
significance within the larger landscape of the "scary clown"
popular culture trope, and through comparison to Tim Curry's iconic
performance in Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. This Devil's
Advocate contextualizes Muschietti's films within the larger
landscape of King's literary and popular culture influence, as well
as the debate surrounding "elevated" horror and the "horror boom"
of the late 2010s.
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